Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page.
Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads.
For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA
Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range.
PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE
Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted.
Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise.
NATURAL LOOK
Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them.
PRO CONTROLS
Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray.
Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped.
SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM
Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active.
MACRO MODE
Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots.
VIEWFINDER
Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images.
LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION
Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobile app for editing. In addition, our raw DNG files provide maximum compatibility with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS
Technology Previews will be a place where we will offer an early look at technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe’s flagship products, or that already appear in these products in a slightly different form:
- AI Denoise is a variant of the AI-based denoising from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a new DNG to your camera roll.
- Remove Reflections is a variant of the technology from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a medium-resolution JPEG to your camera roll. It tries to remove reflections when shooting through plate glass windows covering most of the camera field of view.
- Face Dewarp corrects warp on faces near the edge of images captured using wide-angle lenses. It uses DNG or JPEG as input and saves a JPEG to your camera roll.
As a camera this is the single best, most beautiful image producing camera app I have ever seen. Night shots are incredible and maintain the mood as realistic as possible. Where the actual iphone camera over sharpens everything and makes everything too bright this camera shines and keeps everything looking realistic.Yes the processing is so intensive that the camera can only take a picture ever second or 2 but I pick this camera over any camera any time. I can't wait for the processing and the app to get better and more reliable.
Developer Response
Hi Christian! Thank you for trying Project Indigo and for sharing your feedback. The team is happy to hear you are enjoying your photography with Indigo. We know the app may cause overheating on some devices, making it harder to use. We are working on optimizing the app experience and will be releasing updates to address these issues in the upcoming releases. ^RS
Overheats
UJAXX
Using this on my iphone 16 pro max and the results are incredible, but one thing that stops me from using this app for more than five minutes is how taxing it is on the CPU the phone overheats after just 3 to 4 pictures and then I have to wait to get it cooled down. hope its fixed soon
Developer Response
Hello there! We're so glad to hear you're impressed with the results—that means a lot. Project Indigo team is aware of reports that the app may trigger heat warning too easily on some devices, making it harder to use. We are working on optimizing the app experience and will be releasing updates that address these issues in the coming weeks. We appreciate your patience and hope to make the app more reliable for longer sessions very soon. ^RC
Actually does what it says: computational super-resolution.
GeorgeosH
People leaving bad reviews clearly haven’t read any of the documentation that the app insists you read when you first open it.
Developer Response
Hi there! Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment. We appreciate you pointing out the importance of the documentation — it’s designed to help users get the most out of the app from the start. Your support means a lot; we’re glad you’re making the most of the experience! ^RS
Good
kat0list
I liked everything, but I would add that it would be possible to make a longer exposure, let's say to take a picture of the sky
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for trying Project Indigo and for sharing feedback. We are very happy to hear you are enjoying your photography with Indigo. The team is working on expanding the Long Exposure feature to include longer captures and in the future a dedicated astrophotography capture mode. Please stay tuned. ^RS
New features:
- New Technology Preview for undoing face warping caused by wide angle lenses. Particularly useful for selfies and ultra-wide camera photos of people. NOTE: this feature processes data on the device only. No data is stored, processed or retained by Adobe or third parties.
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Revamped onboarding experience for Technology Previews.
- Re-instated the EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization) option to camera settings.
- Fixed Number of frames slider in Pro controls not snapping into position.
- Fixed Number of frames slider automatically resetting to Auto.
- Fixed tap-to-focus not working in Pro controls if white balance was set to manual.
Version 1.0.13
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Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
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